High school softball: Tri-Cape team makes Carpenter Cup final

Jun. 27, 2013

Lauren Tobolski

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The Tri-Cape All-Star softball team has reached the championship game of the Carpenter Cup Classic.

Now, the squad will try to accomplish something no other South Jersey team has been able to do — win the tournament.

Tri-Cape checked into the final after Thursday’s three wins at F.D.R. Park in South Philadelphia.

Tri-Cape (5-1) will play Delaware South (5-0) in Monday’s championship round of the double-elimination tournament. Tri-Cape must win the 10:30 a.m. game to force a winner-take-all contest at 12:30.

“It’s been very exciting,” Tri-Cape coach Pam Pickett said. “Our biggest concern coming into the tournament was if the players were going to be able to mesh together and how quickly they would be able to do it. If you don’t mesh, you don’t win. That’s what we told them.

“They’ve done a great job of it and that’s why they are here (in the championship game).”

Tri-Cape has reached the finals just once — in 2005, the inaugural season of tournament. It lost to Delaware Gold, which is now known as Delaware South.

Tri-Cape knocked off Berks County/Lancaster-Lebanon 11-5 in the first game as Millville’s Lauren Tobolski went 2-for-2 with two runs scored and an RBI.

During a 5-1 win over Delaware North, Tobolski, a first baseman by trade, played right field and made a sensational sliding catch in the gap to rob an extra-base hit. Buena’s Stephanie Walsh also had two defensive gems at second base while Sacred Heart’s Gabby Casellini had a hit for TC.

Tri-Cape accepted a forfeit win from Mercer County, which handed the team its only loss of the tournament. Mercer County didn’t have enough players to compete in Thursday’s final game.

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